Mshkavank Monastery

Mshkavank is a 12th–13th-century monastery near the village of Koghb in Armenia’s Tavush Province. It occupies a wooded plateau and preserves the Church of the Holy Mother of God and a western narthex. Although the exact completion date is unknown, the church was mentioned as an existing structure in 1219.

Architecturally, the church is a square, single-nave domed hall with a semicylindrical vault. Two two-storey side chambers adjoin the apse. A stylised cross with a bull’s head at its upper end appears above a window on the western façade. The only entrance is from the west through the narthex and is framed with multicoloured stone decoration.